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Localization services like gmapping, karto, and amcl publish the transform from /map -> /odom. This transform is the correction for the accumulated drift in the odometry as measured by the localization. If the odometry was perfect this transform would always be zero. So the "corrected odometry" is the net transform from /map to /odom to /base_link.

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