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GLIDE number #234

Open andylolz opened 6 years ago

andylolz commented 6 years ago

http://glidenumber.net

It’s down at time of writing, and has experienced intermittent downtime of late. So mirroring it here (or somewhere) would be extremely useful.

What is a GLIDE number?

Accessing disaster information can be a time consuming and laborious task. Not only is data scattered but frequently identification of the disaster can be confusing in countries with many disaster events. To address both of these issues, Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) proposed a globally common Unique ID code for disasters. This idea was shared and promoted by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) of the University of Louvain in Brussels (Belgium), OCHA/ReliefWeb, OCHA/FSCC, ISDR, UNDP, WMO, IFRC, OFDA-USAID, FAO, La Red and the World Bank and was jointly launched as a new initiative "GLIDE".

andylolz commented 6 years ago

I’ve become unconvinced it’s sensible to duplicate this here! Sorry for the noise.

rufuspollock commented 6 years ago

@andylolz i think this would be useful to package at some point so re-opening - it seems like a cool dataset :smile:

andylolz commented 6 years ago

The site continues to be really patchy: https://stats.uptimerobot.com/6RzwmCW51

…so mirroring it could be useful.

andylolz commented 6 years ago

The UN now republishes a subset of GLIDE numbers here: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unocha-glides

There’s some explanation of how this subset is determined: https://discuss.iatistandard.org/t/new-glide-number-source-available/1357/3

So historical and non-UN GLIDE numbers aren’t included in that mirror.

rufuspollock commented 6 years ago

@andylolz i think this is worth packaging if you are up for it ...