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I think you should just be able to do the method you mentioned and produce a new publisher by instantiating it the same way you made the first map publisher,

        self.new_pcl_publisher = rospy.Publisher('/map2', PointCloud2, latch=True, queue_size=1000)

And from there you can publish to this one and subscribe to it

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