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clear a topic to make it 'unpublished'

asked 2014-02-26 04:38:31 -0600

david.c.liebman
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I am working on a project where I want to be able to launch the turtlebot gmapping demo immediately after the amcl demo. I do not want to add to a map that I've already been navigating, instead I want to clear the map that was used by the amcl navigation demo and start a new one. The problem I have is that the /map topic seems to hold the values that the navigating demo was using. I don't want to quit ros and start it over again. What I was hoping was that there was some way to clear the map and proceed from there.

How does one clear a topic to the state of emptyness or the state of not being published at all? Can this be done programmatically? Does this make sense?

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answered 2014-02-26 04:51:59 -0600

dornhege

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A topic doesn't hold anything. What does is the node that publishes that topic. Either the node has a functionality to clear/unpublish a topic or you simply kill the node that has been publishing so far.

In your case amcl probably uses the map_server. As you want to run gmapping afterwards, you can just bring that down, i.e. kill the map_server, and probably also amcl. If you start gmapping then, no other map messages should be flying around.

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