[ROS2 Foxy] lookupTransform target doesn't exist despite using waitForTransform

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For a node I am writing I need to lookup a static transform from a sensor frame, gps, to the base_link. I do this in the initialization and save it as a private member of the node class.

This is resulting in

morten@thinkpad:~/ros2_ws$ ros2 run gps velocity_estimation_node 
[ERROR] [1632903136.082895496] [gps_transform]: couldn't wait for gps message
[INFO] [1632903136.087996564] [gps_transform]: Waiting for transform from gps to base_link
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'tf2::LookupException'
  what():  "base_link" passed to lookupTransform argument target_frame does not exist.

I can confirm that the relevant frames exist by ros2 run tf2_tools view_frames.py: frames.pdf

I can also check if the transform exists by ros2 run tf2_ros tf2_echo gps base_link, but this results in strange behavior as well despite showing the correct transformation:

morten@thinkpad:~/ros2_ws$ ros2 run tf2_ros tf2_echo gps base_link
[INFO] [1632903501.716568775] [tf2_echo]: Waiting for transform gps ->  base_link: Invalid frame ID "gps" passed to canTransform argument target_frame - frame does not exist
At time 0.0
- Translation: [-1.100, 0.000, -3.000]
- Rotation: in Quaternion [0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 1.000]

The frames originate from a urdf file which is called from a separate launch file, the frames can also be seen clearly in rviz. An abbreviated version of my code for getting the transform is

...
public:
    Estimator() : Node("gps_transform"){...
        tf_buffer_ = std::make_unique<tf2_ros::Buffer>(this->get_clock());
        transform_listener = std::make_shared<tf2_ros::TransformListener>(*tf_buffer_);
        auto timer_interface = std::make_shared<tf2_ros::CreateTimerROS>(
                this->get_node_base_interface(), this->get_node_timers_interface());
        tf_buffer_->setCreateTimerInterface(timer_interface);

        RCLCPP_INFO(this->get_logger(), "Waiting for transform from %s to %s",
                    "gps", "base_link");
        tf_buffer_->waitForTransform("base_link", "gps", this->now(),
                                     rclcpp::Duration(10),
                                     std::bind(&Estimator::tf_cb, this));
    }
private:
    void tf_cb(){
        tf_buffer_->lookupTransform("base_link", "gps", tf2::TimePointZero);
    }...

  std::shared_ptr<tf2_ros::TransformListener> transform_listener_{nullptr};
  std::unique_ptr<tf2_ros::Buffer> tf_buffer_;
  geometry_msgs::msg::TransformStamped gps_to_baselink_;
};

Note: Using ROS2 Foxy on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.