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Hey,

Basically as Weiin said the Gmapping link shows that Gmapping is subscribed to tf/tfMessage to get its odometer information.

You need to publish the odometer information as both a nav_msgs/Odometry and a tf/tfMessage. A good tutorial explaining this can be found here

http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup/Odom

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