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Usually if you want to integrate different types of data like GPS, Odometry, Acceleration, Rotation, ect. to correct your actual position you will use a so called EKF (extended kalman filter). You will find a ready to use ros node to do this http://wiki.ros.org/robot_pose_ekf or you have to this be yourself in special cases!

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