gmapping tutorial roswiki confusion

So i entered the tutorial from ROSwiki so i can start creating my own map (http://wiki.ros.org/slam_gmapping/Tutorials/MappingFromLoggedDaa The tutorial start with the command rosmake gmapping ..

The question : 1) what is gmapping . Is it a package, or something like that ,that i have to download first . 2) is there anything that i have to do or understand before starting this tutorial

Asked by Kostas Tzias on 2022-07-15 07:29:16 UTC

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gmapping is another ROS package, yes. The package you're looking at is apparently a wrapper around it. Since gmapping is a dependency of slam_gmapping, you ought to be able to install gmapping using rosdep.

Asked by BlakeAnderson on 2022-07-15 12:56:54 UTC