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You can get the correct topic in RViz by

Clicking the "Add" button
Clicking on the "By topic" tab in the popup
Search for the topic under the /gmapping node (or whatever name you have given it) that has a message type of nav_msgs/OccupancyGrid (most likely the /map topic)
Click "Ok"

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