@CopperKettle Although those guidelines are infamously arbitrary.

@CopperKettle Certainly!

> An imaging team produces 3-D terrain meshes from the image data beamed to Earth. Rover drivers then use the maps in dispatching the vehicles to various targets. Using image data, the rovers can get within 1 cm and 10 degrees of a destination. A probe on the end of the robot arm then closes the gap between the actual and estimated target position. JPL staff also rely on wheel odometry and feature tracking to feed the rover an integrated position estimate, Baumgartner said.

That's the lone COCA result for odometry :-)

So it's clearly not a term in common use.

That said, in technical contexts it's quite well established, and we can see this by searching Google Scholar.

scholar.google.com/scholar?q=odometry

Wikipedia on its own doesn't establish the term as important. Wikipedia misuses all sorts of technical terminology, and its own guidelines are too inconsistent to be relied on.

But we can easily find plenty of primary sources that use the term.