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Depends on what you want your map to be, but in principle yes. If it should just be a big point cloud, saving is all you need. Maybe trigger optimization (Key "o") before you do so. If you want a volumetric map, use the octomap_server and use "send whole model" (and trigger the octomap_saver later).

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