Plot Google Maps in RVIZ

swri-robotics / mapviz

Modular ROS visualization tool for 2D data.

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Plot Google Maps in RVIZ #795

Closed Cram3r95 closed 12 months ago

Cram3r95 commented 12 months ago

Hi,

Is it possible to plot a Google Maps / OSM layout in RVIZ? I must represent my 3D sensors and markers, so I cannot use mapviz in 2D.

Best,

Carlos

danthony06 commented 12 months ago

Mapviz is not RViz, but Mapviz does support pulling offline maps from a variety of resources and displaying them within the application. The details are here: https://swri-robotics.github.io/mapviz/plugins/tile_map/.

Cram3r95 commented 12 months ago

@danthony06 Thank you, but I want to represent my data (LiDAR markers, etc.) in the 3D space, and Mapviz is only designed for the 2D space. Is it possible to implement the map as a layout in RVIZ?

danthony06 commented 12 months ago

Mapviz isn't an RViz plugin, and thus can't be embedded with RViz. I'm not aware of any mechanism for showing Google Maps data in RViz, but I also haven't looked into that in a long time. You might check out Foxglove Studio, it might be closer to what you want.