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A node was added to provide this functionality (although the documentation is lacking info about it).

You can run it like this:

rosrun laser_assembler point_cloud2_assembler _fixed_frame:=map cloud:=/velodyne_points

Get the pointcloud as described here. The service is called assemble_scans2, with AssembleScans2.

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