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If you use the advanced API you're transporting the data in time. As such you need to tell tf which coordinate frame it is considered fixed during the change in time.

There's tutorials on this in the main tf2 tutorials for both C++ and Python

You can also read about it in the 2013 paper: http://wiki.ros.org/Papers/TePRA2013_Foote

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