OVI Maps issues

Even though my GPS is not working well, when I have been able to use the map application with it, I have noticed that only on the first run after starting the app does the red position indicator stay on screen and show your travel progress. Once I have locked out the screen and keyboard and then returned to it, the red tracking dot is no longer shown. Has anyone else found this? If so is it a bug and therefore I should report it (whoops - I didn't check that before posting this).
Also, I do not yet have a data plan, but am pleased to see that the cached maps are still usable when there is no internet connection. However, the map application hangs for quite some time, seeming to be trying to get an internet connection. Only after it has asked which connection I want to join does it start responding. In that scenario, as I am usually on my bike, I don't want a connection. So how can I tell the app to not look for a connection and just run from cache? Can I turn off just the Wi-Fi somehow so it knows it can't get a connection?
Thanks again for any help you can provide.

Thanks, I know it doesn't move the map, however, while still on the same map view, the red dot will follow you across that view until you go outside it's range and then it will provide the square with the red dot. The issue I noticed was that once I had locked the screen and keyboard and then returned to the map, the red dot on the map was no longer visible. It was still tracking me, but, you could only tell once you moved off the map because the square would appear. The red dot tracking on my current view would not return until I had closed the Maps app and then restarted it. I hope I have explained it well enough.

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