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in Feature requests by SolEg (130 points)

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+5 votes
Unfortunately that don't work. There is a reason the original gsak implementation uses a helper tool for the user to set that manually.

A quick compilation of my GSAK caches. I have 60 set as night owl caches with Night cache and Flas hlight required attributes

Night   night+flash
60        53               Night Owl cache
22        3                 Not night owl cache

It is quite obvious that there is not any way to auto detect it

Also se the FAQ whre the intresting part is
"Then we are also missing the badges The Scuba-Cacher and The Night-Owl. These can not be automatically calculated. We have been strictly told by the author of BadgeGen that we can not use the cache attributes to determine these. Therefore, there is currently no technical solution to solve these badges"
http://project-gc.com/Home/FAQ#4f70b0c6a1a97467ef6f70bd2ab02ac2
by Target. (Expert) (104k points)
Maybe you can solve it with bookmarks like FTF.
It asholud be easy to manage it with lists to generate it.
+2 votes

Absolutely agree with "Target." and the BadgeGen team. The problem I have experienced many times is, that especially begining cache owners often put the attribute "nigth cache" instead of "recommended at night" which have completely different meaning. Meanwhile NIGHT CACHE would be a cache, which is impossible (or pretty hardly possible) to trace during the daylight (because of the refflective signs e.g.), RECCOMENDATION AT NIGHT would mean, that the geocache is placed on a very public place, crowded during the working hours e.g., usually in urban area and recommendation is to prevent the revelation of the hiding place by "unauthorised" persons in order to protect the geocache.

I estimate this happens by mistake rather than on purpose. Nevertheless, this is the reason, why considering any night cache to be the "really" night one automatically, based on the attributes, would be completely messy and incorrect.

by Guru Joe (1.6k points)
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