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From your images, it looks like something wrong with the rotation odometry. GMapping can usually close loops for small rotational errors, but once that gets large, the map will mess up badly.

Have you run through these yet?

http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup

http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/Navigation%20Tuning%20Guide

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