Hi OctoMap users,
there is a new paper available that describes the details of the OctoMap approach, along with implementation details and evaluations of different data sets and parameters. It may also give you some insights on how you can best use OctoMap for your project.
OctoMap: An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework Based on Octrees by A. Hornung, K.M. Wurm, M. Bennewitz, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard; to appear in the Autonomous Robots journal special issue on Open Source Software-Supported Robotics Research. There is also a PDF preprint
publicly available here and linked from the OctoMap homepage:
http://octomap.github.com/Best regards,
Armin