  Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has found an increasing
utilization lately, such as self-driving cars, robot navigation, 3D mapping,
virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), etc., empowering both industry
and daily life. Although the state-of-the-art algorithms where developers have
spared no effort are source of intelligence, it is the datasets that dedicate
behind and raise us higher. The employment of datasets is essentially a kind of
simulation but profits many aspects - capacity of drilling algorithm hourly,
exemption of costly hardware and ground truth system, and equitable benchmark
for evaluation. However, as a branch of great significance, still the datasets
have not drawn wide attention nor been reviewed thoroughly. Hence in this
article, we strive to give a comprehensive and open access review of SLAM
related datasets and evaluation, which are scarcely surveyed while highly
demanded by researchers and engineers, looking forward to serving as not only a
dictionary but also a development proposal. The paper starts with the
methodology of dataset collection, and a taxonomy of SLAM related tasks. Then
followed with the main portion - comprehensively survey the existing SLAM
related datasets by category with our considerate introductions and insights.
Furthermore, we talk about the evaluation criteria, which are necessary to
quantify the algorithm performance on the dataset and inspect the defects. At
the end, we summarize the weakness of datasets and evaluation - which could
well result in the weakness of topical algorithms - to promote bridging the gap
fundamentally.
