Displaying the static map

The static map is the map that we feed into the map_server node. The map_server node serves the static map in the /map topic:

  • Topic: /map
  • Type: nav_msgs/GetMap

The following is the static map in RViz:

Figure 15: Visualizing static map in RViz

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