Originally Posted by
tntyz
Very satisfied Edge 530 owner here. I cannot see how anyone would want to use the 530 for on the fly navigation. It works fine for following a course that has been loaded and that's easy enough to do from computer or smart phone. But for actually planning a route? No.
What you're experiencing is the difference between the 5XX and the 8XX and above. I enter a destination all the time while I'm out riding and when I haven't previously been using any GPS capability. The functionality works very similar to the way a Garmin car GPS operates in that you can input an address, look up a point of interest, etc. Once you've got that capability, it's great because you can just wander and always know that you'll find what you want.