Does Nokia Maps need to be online to work sometime...

Hi all,
I am very confused about the use of the free Nokia Maps applications. I have an N97 mini, and I was using the maps application throughout Egypt last week.
I had the settings placed "offline", and the application would open and would work fine, but whenever I did a search for a place, most times it would not find the place. Even common street names or popular tourist sites, could not be found offline. I then changed the settings to "online", and when I would do the same searches, it now would fine the places and streets.
However, when I checked my mobile phone provider account, using the "online" mode was using up all my phone credit.
So I am confused about whether I must be online to use the Nokia Maps application to find places, or should it work offline. What is the difference? And why does Nokia tell us its free, if in fact it uses up my phone account's data to find places that should already be in the maps application?
So I have 3 main questions I am unsure about:
1. Do i need to be online to search for some places, as it seems that offline it does not find all places?
2. If I am online, should it be charging me, or should it still be free?
3. When I update the maps, as I did, should that not include all the places on the maps that I find in online mode? Or are some places only found if I an online?
I must say we had so many problems using the maps application throughout Egypt- I do not recommend it to anyone for this place. It got us lost so many times, and once we ended up in some isolated poverty stricken town near the Pyramids of Sakkara- it was hell getting back! And it only worked when I went into online mode, and used up all my phone credit.

Refer these threads..
/t5/Maps-Navigation-and-GPS/Ovi-maps-when-offline-search-not-working/m-p/614321/highlight/true#M1668...
/t5/Maps-Navigation-and-GPS/No-offline-search-OVI-Maps/m-p/644579/highlight/true#M19586
/t5/Maps-Navigation-and-GPS/ovi-map-search-offline-problem/m-p/741575/highlight/true#M26571
..and you are getting charged for using the Internet (Packet data) by your service provider and not by Nokia /OVI..
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