"rough location" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a general or approximate location rather than a specific one. Example: "I have a rough location of where the treasure may be buried, but we will need a metal detector to pinpoint the exact spot."
NASA's flight data gave Mr Bezos's team a rough location to begin the search.
Foursquare, another location-sharing app (which encourages people to "check in" at locations to become "mayor") is also releasing Swarm, which will group friends based on rough location.
Cusic drove us by the rough location of her father's original store, on a long-paved-over stretch of Interstate 75 that runs past Mack Avenue.
Because YouTube is delivered over the Internet, the company will know exactly who is watching — not their names but their viewing histories, their searches, their purchases, their rough location, and their online social connections.
This is good when you need to make a call, but it also leaves a trail behind you, which can essentially be used to track your rough location and who you called or texted.
Matt Distel and Alison Levy, the organizers, have introduced innovations this year that will assist visitors trying to hunt down the artworks: a fold-out map listing all the participants and marking the rough location of each piece and colored ground markers that help direct you to the exact site.
That data, combined with the sun's elevation angle, give rough locations of a tagged animal.
Then, rough locations of defects were extracted using Sobel edge detector.
Circles in d, f indicate rough locations of the contour line around which the mountain valley breeze circulation occurs.
Rough locations of the major shear zone detected by Matsumoto et al. (2015) and Aso caldera are shown by blue and red shades, respectively.
To provide some geographical context, Figure 1 shows the rough locations of cell towers in relation to the regional boundaries of Ivory Coast (255 subprefectures).
