So the new course creator seems a bit of an improvement, however...
You can?t set the type of the course point to left / right as you can in gpsies etc.
If you import a course it discards the course points.
When I actually use a course on my Edge 520, the notifications for course points that I created were ?late? the first notification appeared approx. 30m after the point on the map; subsequent notifications were further and further after the correct point until the final one was showing 280m to course point at the point I was at the junction. I went back and checked after the ride and even zoomed in the course points were definitely in the correct places in course creator.
It also adds ?direction? course points approx 20-30m after the course points I added; these correctly show the symbol. However, they are worse than useless because they don?t show until after you?ve made the turn (because my own course point notification ? which I can?t add a direction arrow to ? is showing until the turn ? or at least it would be if it wasn?t showing 10s or 100s of meters late!)
It does seem bizarre how these bugs can possibly have made it into a live product from an organisation like Garmin ? I can only assume either I?m in beta mode without knowing it, I?m doing something wrong or no-one has tested the functionality on an Edge 520 before releasing it to customers ? since these issues are obvious on the first ride you do?
Also I?m pretty sure this isn?t an Edge 520 issue since my courses created on gpsies.com exported as TCX with waypoints and then imported by copying to NewFiles when the Edge 520 is mounted as USB storage still work fine!
I've reported the issues (in 3 batches as I've discovered them) to Garmin via their web contact page, but as yet only had the automated acknowledgements back.
