Well and in the specific context of SLAM, the business of localizing is itself an adaptive and constructive process. "Locating" is what the user does when they

Well and in the specific context of SLAM, the business of localizing is itself an adaptive and constructive process. "Locating" is what the user does when they simply tell the robot where it is on the map. Localization is building a continuous graph of your immediate surroundings and past movement history and fitting that to what is known about the environment.