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Description
GLIDE Disaster Events for Guinea provides GLIDEnumbers, which are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters. The data is published by the GLIDE Initiative and was last updated on 2026-06-23. It is used by organizations including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, UNDP, WMO, IFRC, FAO, the European Commission, and CRED.
Use Cases
Cross-reference disaster information across different databases based on the unique GLIDEnumber.
Analyze disaster frequency and impact in Guinea based on the registered event records.
Integrate disaster data with other geospatial or humanitarian datasets using the standardized identifier.
Strengths
Provides a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDEnumber) for each disaster event.
Data is actively used by major international organizations like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
Available in multiple formats including CSV and GEOJSON for interoperability.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-06-23).
Provenance
Source
GLIDE Initiative
Collection Method
Disaster events are registered with a unique GLIDEnumber to enable interoperability across sources.