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I'm pretty sure it's actually wrong usage, and should be replaced with "Locate" in this context. "Localize" has various meanings, but in a physical location se
by w0mbat 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's actually wrong usage, and should be replaced with "Locate" in this context.
"Localize" has various meanings, but in a physical location sense is to restrict something to a particular area, e.g. "We successfully localized the fire to the Johnson farm so no other farms were damaged.".
I can't see a definition that is equivalent to "locate" or "find".
- mywittyname 6y agoA better title would be either: Locate your cat at home using... Or Domestic Feline location using... Depending on the level of techno-mumbo-jumbo the author is looking for.
- didymospl 6y agoI don't know what's idiomatic here as English is not my first language, but according to my dictionary "localize" can also mean "to find the position of something" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/localize https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/localize Maybe it's British vs American English?
- w0mbat 6y agoI looked at Merriam-Webster online, the snippet Google pulls from the OED and the Mac dictionary app which uses the New American Oxford. "Locate" would lead to less confusion among readers. It unanimously has the right definition, and is a simpler word.
- MauranKilom 6y agoI think one of the reasons that one is not used because usages like "Simultaneous Location And Mapping" (instead of the "Simultaneous Localization And Mapping" that SLAM stands for) would read a bit strange... "location" is more commonly used to mean "the place" and not "the act of finding the place".
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