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It could be a problem with your gmapping settings. I had the same flickering map and it occasionally relocated the map center in rviz.
For me I solved the problem by tweaking the map update settings especially the map_update_interval and particles. See this post for more info: https://answers.ros.org/question/115401/how-to-update-gmapping-continuously/

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