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In rviz, you should be able to add a map display on the left of the screen. Then set the topic to /map which is the default from gmapping. YOu might then need to set the 'fixed frame' to /map as well at the top left of rviz.

rviz shouldn't care that you are using a bagfile vs realtime topic data stream. :)

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