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This sounds like the hector_mapping node isn't doing anything, which could be the case if the wrong scan topic is specified (e.g. hokuyo_node publishes to "/scan" but hector_mapping subscribes "/hokuyo_scan"). Can you verify you really publish the scan to the "hokuyo_scan" topic?

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