on location Definition

1. A position or situation.

Thesaurus: locale, locus, site, place, bearings, spot, venue.
2. The act of locating or process of being located.
3. An authentic place or natural setting for making a film or broadcast, as distinct from an artificial setting in a studio.
(S Afr)
4. Under apartheid: any of the townships or other areas where Black or Coloured people were forced to live.
5. computing.
A position in a memory which can hold a unit of information.
(Austral)
6. A farm.

Said of filming: taking place at an authentic cite as opposed to in the studio.
Example: The whole film was shot on location