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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is pleased to announce the release of Mapviz, a graphical tool for viewing ROS data from outdoor robotic systems. Mapviz, like Rviz, uses an extensible plugin architecture to display
ROS data. The Intelligent Vehicles sections at SwRI developed Mapviz as a tool for our work using ROS in automotive applications. Whereas Rviz is designed for 3D display of data from indoor robots, Mapviz is a 2D (top-down) viewer designed for use with outdoor
robots. We look forward to feedback and contributions from others who find Mapviz useful.<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Some Features of Mapviz:</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">* Tile Map background maps from OpenMapQuest (open.mapquest.com) and stamen design (http://maps.stamen.com), with Bing map support coming soon</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">* Multires Image backgrounds to display custom maps or backgrounds</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">* Robot marker(s) with custom robot image icons<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">* Plugins for several ROS message types:</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - sensor_msgs/Disparity<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - gps_common/GPSFix (sensor_msgs/NavSatFix support coming soon)</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - sensor_msgs/Image</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - sensor_msgs/LaserScan</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - visualization_msgs/Marker</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - nav_msgs/Odometry</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - nav_msgs/Path</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - marti_visualization_msgs/Textured Marker (a custom message type for painting image data onto the visualization)</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> - TF transforms<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Jerry Towler of Southwest Research Institute will give a presentation on Mapviz during Day 2 of ROSCon 2015.<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">If you want to use Mapviz, it is available on GitHub at
<a href="http://github.com/swri-robotics/mapviz" target="_blank">http://github.com/swri-robotics/mapviz</a>. Ubuntu Debian installers from the OSRF build farm are up in the shadow-fixed repository for Indigo (Trusty) and Jade (Trusty, Utopic, and Vivid). Additionally,
Mapviz can be compiled from source for ROS Jade, Indigo, Hydro, Groovy, and Fuerte. Documentation is available on the ROS wiki at
<a href="http://wiki.ros.org/mapviz" target="_blank">http://wiki.ros.org/mapviz</a>
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Intelligent Vehicle Systems (http://ivs.swri.org)<br>
Applied Sensing Department (http://appliedsensing.swri.org)<br>
Southwest Research Institute (http://www.swri.org)<br>
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