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It seems like a reasonable thing to do. You basically initialize a global costmap with your static_map from the map server. However, if you don't need specific functions from Costmap2d, you can also just subscribe the map topic in your node and directly work on the nav_msgs::OccupancyGrid data. But especially for planning I think using Costmap2d is the way to go.

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