Originally Posted by
globecanvas
I'll put in a strong vote for the 520. IMO the 520 is the 500 with all of the bad features fixed. You can load very good open source maps, which makes the mapping very good. The other major upgrades from the 500 are wireless uploading, which I wouldn't have considered a big deal but now I wouldn't want to live without, and the ease of customization. The 500 annoys the heck out of me how it has fixed size arrangements for the fields. Like if you want 5 fields, you have to have one big and 4 tiny.
the 520 is the only garmin i've had, but i really quite like it. it just works for me, wireless uploading as you mentioned is great, and the mapping seems good enough to me. also not really sure why what euro pros use matters in this context.