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

Open house
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We regularly meet in an open-for-all Google hangout to discuss progress and plans for Cartographer.

The next Cartographer Open House Hangout is on Thursday, September 14, 5pm CEST (8am PST) [`Hangouts link`_].

.. _Hangouts link: https://staging.talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/_/google.com/cartographeropenhouse

- 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>`_

Getting started
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* Learn to use Cartographer at `our Read the Docs site`_.
* Please join the `mailing list`_ and ask questions.

.. _our Read the Docs site: https://google-cartographer.readthedocs.io
.. _mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-cartographer

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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