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The Ptr/ConstPtr are defined by the ROS message generation and are boost shared pointers. AFAIK Msg::Ptr and MsgPtr are exactly the same thing, i.e. it's just a typedef.
As to your actual code, you only define a pointer occGrid, but never fill that with the actual nav_msgs data structure, so it points to nothing.