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By default for kinect the angle sweep is from -90 to +90 but it only works for -28 to +28 therefore most of the value is around 11.0 if ur max_range_value is set to 10. Try using demo gmapping program for turtlebot and u'll get better incite about laser values from the map that is created.

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