Malaysia - GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Identifiers
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Description
GLIDEnumbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, designed to make disaster information interoperable across multiple sources. The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) proposed this globally common Unique ID code to address the challenge of scattered and confusing disaster data. This dataset, provided by the GLIDE Initiative, contains disaster event records for Malaysia in CSV and GeoJSON formats.
Use Cases
Link disaster information across different sources based on the GLIDEnumber unique identifier.
Analyze disaster event frequency and location in Malaysia based on the geospatial data.
Integrate disaster data into humanitarian information systems based on the interoperability standard.
Strengths
Uses a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDEnumber) adopted by major institutions like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
Available in both tabular (CSV) and geospatial (GeoJSON) formats.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
GLIDE Initiative
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-23 23:55:20.222189; freshness should be verified.