The phrase "designate locations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that specific locations have been chosen or identified for a particular purpose. For example, "The maps were used to designate locations for the new shelters."
The regulations, issued last week, give the secretary of the Army authority to designate locations for military executions, replacing old rules that required them to take place at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The charges filed last week accuse the supervisor of running afoul of a departmental memo that was issued in September that instructs dispatchers to use the name of a Police Department harbor unit rather than the name of a body of water to designate locations for emergencies on New York's waterways, a police official said.
You can designate locations on your page that you want the browser to go to when specific links are clicked.
To do this, you need to create the "anchor" that you can refer to with the link: You can designate locations on your page that you want the browser to go to when specific links are clicked.
Ambulances are supposed to be located at designated locations such that in case of an emergency the patients can be reached in a time-efficient manner.
In order to reduce the time complexity of the indoor positioning procedure, we design a close designated location set (CDLS) algorithm that only uses the designated locations with the similar footprints of current user's position to determine the user's location.
— at designated locations around town.
Designating locations wasn't a bad idea.
Effective date of prohibition on designated locations.
§ 160.7 Effective date of prohibition on designated locations.
§ 860.7 Effective date of prohibition on designated locations.
