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Latency is not a problem as everything is timestamped and the correct data is retrieved. Either way, you need to get odometry or tf messages.

The huge advantage is that tf does not only provide the odometry pose of the robot, but the pose of every link in the TF tree over time. If you want to know, where your laser is in the /odom frame, tf gets you this directly without manually puzzling together transformations.