Programatically create Event Manager Locations

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );

# Create an associative array of locations to be used later.
$fp = fopen('ent_regions.csv', 'r');
$regions = array();
if ($fp) {
    while (($line = fgets($fp, 4096)) !== false) {
        $items = explode('|', $line);
        $regions[$items[0]] = $items[1];
    }
    fclose($fp);
}
else {
    print "ERROR: Could not open regions file.";
    exit;
}


# CSV file is export of other database.
$fp = fopen('outlets.csv', 'r');
if ($fp) {
    $author_id = 1;
    $location_id = 5;  # INCREMENT before wp_insert_post.

    while (($line = fgets($fp, 4096)) !== false) {
        $venue = explode('|', $line);
#var_dump($venue);
        $location_id++;
        $location_name = $venue[1];
        $slug = strtr(strtolower($location_name), ' ', '-');
        $slug = str_replace('-&-', '-and-', $slug);
        $slug = str_replace('---', '-', $slug);
        $slug = str_replace('--', '-', $slug);

        $description = sprintf('%s%sWebsite: <a href="%s">%s</a>%sEmail: %s%sPhone: +353 0 %s', $venue[13], "\n\n", $venue[6], $venue[6], "\n", $venue[4], "\n", $venue[5]);
        $excerpt = $venue[14];
        $longitude = $venue[18];
        $latitude = $venue[19];
        $address = $venue[2];
        $town = $regions[$venue[3]];

#print "$location_name - $slug - $excerpt\n$longitude - $latitude\n$address - $town\n\n";
$post_id = wp_insert_post(
        array(
            'post_name'     =>  $slug,
            'post_title'        =>  $location_name,
            'post_content'          =>  $description,
            'post_excerpt'          =>  $excerpt,
            'post_author'       =>  $author_id,
            'comment_status'    =>  'closed',
            'ping_status'       =>  'closed',
            'post_status'       =>  'publish',
            'post_type'     =>  'location'
        ));
#echo "Post id: ".$post_id;

# Delete post meta to be thorough.
delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_status');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_status', '1');

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_longitude');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_longitude', $longitude);

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_latitude');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_latitude', $latitude);

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_country');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_country', 'IE');

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_region');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_region', '');

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_id');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_id', $location_id);

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_address');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_address', $address);

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_town');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_town', $town);

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_state');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_state', 'Co. Cork');

delete_post_meta($post_id, '_location_postcode');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_location_postcode', '');

    }
    fclose($fp);
}
else {
    print "ERROR: Could not open outlets file.";
    exit;
}