Not currently. Can't you just instruct users to not use that feature? Just tell them to not enter anything in the location field. Maybe I can add an extra css class on that setting to make it easy to hide it, I will do that for the next release, I will add the class "locationrow" to the div that has the location text box so you can hide with

.locationrow {display:none;}

Hope it helps,

Joe

No it only loads a google map and the related javascript for it if the location is populated.

If you want to indicate a location without a google map you can just list it in the main description of the event. The Location field is specifically for google map.

Best,

Joe