Pleased to hear it works ! By “pure gps” I was referring to the type of app where “Network location” is unused – the app totally relies on GPS and requires no internet connection or any other form of triangulation or “Network location”
I now see from the manual
https://memory-map.com/mm-fa-help/index.htm
…the application it prompts you to enable the device’s Location service, which is used to identify the best available free basemap for where you are.