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I've managed to fix the problem. Running roswtf showed me that the ekf_localization node actually handles the odom->base_link connection. When I was created my tf tree initially, it had both the laser and the odom unlinked for some reason, so I assumed that I needed to create both. Removing my odom->base_link fixed the issue and maps appear as expected.

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