Turkmenistan GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Identifiers

GLIDE numbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, enabling interoperability across multiple disaster information sources. The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) proposed this globally common Unique ID code to address confusion in identifying events across borders. This dataset contains these identifiers for disaster events in Turkmenistan.

Use Cases

• Cross-reference disaster impact data from different organizations based on the common GLIDE identifier.
• Map disaster events in Turkmenistan based on the geospatial file format.
• Analyze disaster frequency and types in Turkmenistan based on the event registration records.
• Integrate disaster information into structured databases based on the interoperable ID system.

Strengths

• Data is interoperable across many major institutions, including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in both tabular (CSV) and geospatial (GeoJSON) formats.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, allowing for broad reuse.

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 GLIDE Initiative's collection scope.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registration of disaster events with a globally unique identifier.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:57:24.054473; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Turkmenistan