He located things with an efficient ease I found disconcerting.
Walter, a veteran, returned from Iraq with a vaguely defined injury that he believes gave him a gift for locating things that are lost.
The show works if viewers accept that he is simply an odd duck, and whether or not his focus on locating things amounts to an unhealthy obsession seems beside the point, given that there's no show without it.
"The way you get that data is having users precisely locate things," said John Hanke, a vice president of product management who oversees Google's mapping efforts.
Schulz's fiction is preoccupied with the attempt to locate things that have been lost, from an exquisite book, glimpsed in childhood and never seen again, to his own father, whose death is reënacted in many of the stories.
Take a moment to put away loose papers, sweep, wipe down surfaces, and locate things you'll need.
They will contain an array of sensors and can carry out various missions, such as locating things.
"I can often locate things people are looking for".
I was explaining the technology behind the Global Positioning System to my wife, Jeanne — how signals from satellites above us help small receivers locate things here on earth.
Professor Bankoff acknowledged that "advances in remote sensing" have enabled archaeologists to "locate things and sites that were elusive decades ago".
