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If this is happening during an init method the reason for the error is likely that the transform data just has not arrived at the tf listener, yet. You need to wait for the buffers to fill, before the queries will be successful. The /map -> /odom transform is probably missing, which may take some time as SLAM/localization will need to be running and producing data first.

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