The 'MappingWidgets' project is developing a framework for making simple clients to OpenGIS web mapping servers (WMS). In order to reach a good performance, the generated mapping code (this is the mix of javascript and xhtml) is cached by the smarty framework. The standard smarty framework is extended with plugins to convert widgets in a template into necessary code.

Standard web mapping / geography functionality is: zoom in, zoom out, pan, info, overview, full zoom history (first,previous,next,last) etc.

An equally important objective is that the framework must be suitable for integrating it with a CMS or Wiki environment, such as Drupal or Mediawiki. An integration of mappingwidgets with Drupal can be found as Carto module at the Drupal site.

The code generated by 'mappingwidgets' should be xhtml compliant.