On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Narasimhan Rajagopal
<narasimhan1990@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> hi. my project is to create a simple maze and make an autonomous robot solve
> it.
> i'm planning to adapt the turtle sim as my base package.
>
> how to create a custom map(or arena) rather than the default plain one?

You could also use Stage, a 2-D simulator designed for this purpose:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/stage .  You can create new maps easily with a
bitmap editor, such as Gimp.

	brian.