Not if you have a GIS program like from ESRI. Not for a hand held device though.
Well, I've got a GPS unit, just the basic GPS itself and that's fine (it just gives me the numbers and that's it). It has bluetooth and sends the "numbers" out to anything within that bluetooth range.
And then, I've got a computer and a program, which takes these numbers and turns them into something useful... :-)
But, if you've got a phone with GPS, you're gonna have to have something that makes sense of those weird-looking numbers... and that's where the Internet comes in...
I understand your point - But GPS does not need the internet! Get a map.