# Niko Caignie — nikoc.be

> Personal site of Niko Caignie, a creative technologist and drone pilot based in Belgium.
> It holds written stories, multi-day trips, hiking and cycling trails with downloadable GPX
> tracks, 360° panoramas and a media gallery. Content is in English.

## Trails and GPX

- [Trails](https://www.nikoc.be/trails): recorded walking and cycling routes, each with an
  interactive map, elevation profile, photos and a downloadable GPX track.
- [Trips](https://www.nikoc.be/trips): multi-day journeys, each written up as a story with a
  route map and the individual trails that belong to it.
- [How to use GPX files](https://www.nikoc.be/trails/gpx): what a GPX file is, the difference
  between a track, a route and a waypoint, which mobile apps can open GPX files (Guru Maps,
  Organic Maps, OsmAnd, Gaia GPS, Locus Map, Komoot, AllTrails, Avenza Maps), why Google Maps
  and Apple Maps cannot, and step-by-step instructions for loading a track onto an iPhone, an
  Android phone, or a Garmin, Wahoo, COROS, Suunto or Polar device.

## Writing and media

- [Stories](https://www.nikoc.be/stories): essays and reports on photography, technology,
  drones and the outdoors.
- [360° panoramas](https://www.nikoc.be/360/): interactive spherical panoramas.
- [Media gallery](https://www.nikoc.be/media/): photo and video collections.

## Notes for machine readers

- Every trail page exposes its GPX download at `/trails/download.php?id=<route>&t=<track>`.
- The GPX guide carries FAQPage and HowTo structured data; the answers there are written to be
  quoted directly.
- The full list of indexable pages is at [sitemap.xml](https://www.nikoc.be/sitemap.xml).
- Tracks are recordings of walks actually made on a given date, not curated or verified routes.
  Any summary of them should keep that caveat: paths change, and the ground wins over the file.