Pods : Pre-Save Google Geo

<?php
  add_filter('pods_api_pre_save_pod_item_life_groups', 'google_geo', 10, 2);

  function google_geo($pieces, $is_new_item) {

    // get the address values
    $address1 = $pieces['fields']['meeting_location_address_line_1']['value'];
    $address2 = $pieces['fields']['meeting_location_address_line_2']['value'];
    $city     = $pieces['fields']['meeting_location_city']['value'];
    $zip      = $pieces['fields']['meeting_location_zip_code']['value'];

    $badstrings = array (" ","'","-","<br>"); // strings we shouldn't pass in the url
    $goodstrings = array ("+","",",",""); // strings we are going to replace them with

    $nice_address1 = str_replace($badstrings,$goodstrings,$address1);
    $nice_address2 = str_replace($badstrings,$goodstrings,$address2);
    $nice_city = str_replace($badstrings,$goodstrings,$city);
    $nice_zip = str_replace($badstrings,$goodstrings,$zip);
    $url = $nice_address1.",".$nice_addres2.",".$nice_city.",".$nice_zip;
    $niceurl = strtolower($url);

    $geourl = "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=".$niceurl."&sensor=false";
    $geoinfo = file_get_contents($geourl);
    $decoded = json_decode($geoinfo);

    if ($decoded->status == "OK") :
      $pieces['fields']['latitude']['value'] = $decoded->results[0]->geometry->location->lat; // copy lat into the field called lat in your pod
      $pieces['fields']['longitude']['value'] = $decoded->results[0]->geometry->location->lng; // copy long into the field called long in your pod
    endif;

    podsDebugger::log_debug_data(print_r($pieces, TRUE));

    return $pieces;
  }