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Both usually provide localization by publishing the map -> odom tf transform. This is exactly your problem: You have two different sources that provide the same kind of, but different, information.

You should not need amcl at all when running gmapping as amcl only provides localization for a given map. Gmapping already does give you localization (+ mapping).

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