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I don't have any personal experience with octomap, but looking at the docs there appear to be several options:

a standalone library with no ROS dependencies
a ROS wrapper package with various message conversion functions

You probably do want to provide appropriate transforms to the odom coordinate frame.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will provide additional suggestions.

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