[OSM-newbies] one country and updates

[weedget]

On 31.05.2012 17:33, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> weedget <osmpl at weedget.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I downloaded file for my country and uploaded it to database with
>> success.
>> It was 2 months ago.
>>
>> How easy can I now update my data?
>> Should I get again whole file or I can do this with these diff which
>> are
>> published by OSM (files for Poland I got from geofabrik.de)?
>> Any link to how to or something?
>>
>> As I remember if tiles generation script (from mapnik) is omitting
>> already
>> existing tiles, so is there any method to regenerate these which are
>> different?
>>
>> Regards
>> Chris
>>
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> If I understand you correctly, you are downloading the data for your
> entire country, making your edits, and then uploading the entire 
> batch
> of data. I would recommend either using an editor that lets you work
> while connected to the shared database, such as Potlatch, or else
> downloading a smaller area, such as a particular city, at a time.
> That way, you will be working with fresher data, and there is a 
> lesser
> chance that your changes will conflict with someone else's changes.

No, you understood me in wrong way.
I've data from planet file only for my country, and this data is two 
months old, so now I want to update it.

My question is how to do it "painless" and in which way I can update 
after it tiles which I already have on my disk.

BR.
Chris