cartographer/README.rst

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Cartographer
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Purpose
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`Cartographer`_ is a system that provides real-time simultaneous localization
and mapping (`SLAM`_) in 2D and 3D across multiple platforms and sensor
configurations.

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.. _Cartographer: https://github.com/googlecartographer/cartographer
.. _SLAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping

Getting started
===============

* Learn to use Cartographer at `our Read the Docs site`_.
* You can ask a question by `creating an issue`_.

.. _our Read the Docs site: https://google-cartographer.readthedocs.io
.. _creating an issue: https://github.com/googlecartographer/cartographer_ros/issues/new?labels=question

Open house
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We regularly meet in an open-for-all Google hangout to discuss progress and plans for Cartographer.
You can join the `mailing list`_ to receive announcements.

The next Cartographer Open House Hangout is on **Thursday, February 22, 5pm CET (8am PT)** [`Hangouts link`_].

.. _mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-cartographer
.. _Hangouts link: https://staging.talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/_/google.com/cartographeropenhouse

- February 8, 2018: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/180208/slides.pdf>`_
- January 18, 2018: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/180125/slides.pdf>`_
- January 11, 2018: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/180111/slides.pdf>`_
- December 7, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/171207/slides.pdf>`_
- November 23, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/171123/slides.pdf>`_
- November 9, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/171109/slides.pdf>`_
- October 26, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/171026/slides.pdf>`_
- October 12, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/171012/slides.pdf>`_
- September 14, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/170914/slides.pdf>`_
- August 17, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/170817/slides.pdf>`_
- July 20, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/170720/slides.pdf>`_
- July 6, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/170706/slides.pdf>`_
- June 22, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/170622/sildes.pdf>`_
- June 8, 2017: `Slides <https://storage.googleapis.com/cartographer-public-data/cartographer-open-house/170608/slides.pdf>`_

Contributing
============

You can find information about contributing to Cartographer at `our Contribution
page`_.

.. _our Contribution page: https://github.com/googlecartographer/cartographer/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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.. |video| image:: https://j.gifs.com/wp3BJM.gif
    :alt: Cartographer 3D SLAM Demo
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    :target: https://youtu.be/DM0dpHLhtX0