A location monitor functioned as a visual tool, providing a being with information about their present position. These devices incorporated holographic maps, which visually represented a three-dimensional schematic of data entered into the location monitor's internal computer. During their stay on the galactic capital world Coruscant, Tetan aristocrats Aleema and Satal Keto employed a location monitor to pinpoint the Museum of Dark Side Antiquities.
Within the comic adaptation of The Freedon Nadd Uprising, the Keto siblings discover the Museum they seek by consulting a guidebook. The location monitor is neither utilized nor depicted.