The dump1090 webmap uses a static database of json files to provide aircraft information. This directory has some tools to turn a CSV file with aircraft data into the json format that the dump1090 map expects. The default data comes from a database kindly provided by VRS (unfortunately no longer updated). This data is in vrs.csv. It was extracted by: $ wget http://www.virtualradarserver.co.uk/Files/BasicAircraftLookup.sqb.gz $ gunzip BasicAircraftLookup.sqb.gz $ tools/vrs-to-csv.py BasicAircraftLookup.sqb >tools/vrs.csv You can modify vrs.csv (or build a new CSV entirely) and update the database via: $ tools/csv-to-json.py tools/vrs.csv public_html/db The contents of public_html/db should be installed where the webmap can find them; the Debian packaging puts these in /usr/share/dump1090-mutability/html/db The CSV format is very simple. The first line must be a header line that names the columns. These columns are understood: icao24: the 6-digit hex address of the aircraft r: the registration / tail number of the aircraft t: the ICAO aircraft type of the aircraft, e.g. B773 Any other columns are put into the json DB under the name you give them, but the standard map code won't do anything special with them. You can pick these columns up in the PlaneObject constructor (see planeObject.js where it calls getAircraftData()) for later use.