This package is part of robot os (ros), and provides a set of messages used by higher level packages, such as rviz, that deal in visualization-specific data.

the main messages in visualization_msgs is visualization_msgs/marker. the marker message is used to send visualization "markers" such as boxes, spheres, arrows, lines, etc. to a visualization environment such as http:///www.ros.org/wiki/rviz see the rviz tutorial http://www.ros.org/wiki/rviz/tutorials for more information.

this package contains the generated headers files.