planting vs locating

planting and locating both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
planting	Yes	No	No	No
locating	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, locating is a hypernym of planting; that is, locating is a word with a broader meaning than planting:

Other hypernyms of planting include emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning.

planting (noun)	locating (noun)
the act of fixing firmly in place	the act of putting something in a certain place
putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow	a determination of the place where something is
a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area