Mali GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Identifiers
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Description
GLIDE Disaster Events for Mali provides GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters to enable information interoperability across multiple sources. The GLIDE initiative, used by organizations like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC, addresses the challenge of accessing scattered and confusing disaster information. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-23.
Use Cases
Cross-referencing disaster information across international databases based on the GLIDE number standard.
Mapping disaster events spatially based on the available geospatial (GEOJSON) data format.
Analyzing disaster frequency and type in Mali based on the event registration records.
Integrating disaster data into structured reporting systems based on the interoperable identifier framework.
Strengths
Data is structured around a globally recognized standard (GLIDE numbers) used by major UN agencies and international bodies.
Available in both tabular (CSV) and geospatial (GEOJSON) formats for flexible analysis.
License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the HDX platform's Mali focus.
Provenance
Source
GLIDE Initiative
Collection Method
Registered disaster records from multiple structured and textual sources.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-23 23:54:51.130762; freshness should be verified.