Mexico - GLIDE Disaster Events: Standardized Disaster Identifiers

GLIDE numbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters registered in a record that allows information to be interoperable across multiple disaster information sources. The dataset is provided by the GLIDE Initiative and was last updated on 2026-06-23. It is available in CSV and GeoJSON formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Link disaster information across structured and textual sources based on the GLIDE number.
• Track disaster events across borders in countries with many events based on the unique identifier.
• Integrate disaster data from multiple institutional sources like ReliefWeb and FAO based on the common ID code.

Strengths

• Uses a globally common Unique ID code for disasters, facilitating interoperability.
• Actively used by major institutions including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, IFRC, and the European Commission.
• 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 23:54:36.874038; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mexico