Gmaps using lots of memory. Therefore I can't use it. Any way to reduce this?

Looking for a Drupal 6 compatible alternative for the geomap module, I found this module.
It looks great and I would love to take a better look at it. However as soon as I started installed the module, I keep running out of (64M) memory on my site. Looking a bit further, I found the module uses 1.8M, more then double the size of the next biggest module (Node, which I really can't miss). My provider only recently increased the memory limit from 32M to 64M, but still my site doesn't fit.
I know this isn't just caused by the GMaps module, but it's the biggest one I've seen so far and I can't imagine this is really necessary on pages without any GMaps features.