Maps from other region

I bought my watch from the US but travel frequently to Europe and live in Asia.  I noticed in the latest Garmin Express update that it downloaded "Coverage of Europe" and "Coverage of Pacific", but it still didn't show any kind of map data on the watch.  I know about the openmaps.nl hack and I have subsequently downloaded the relevant regions - but i'm curious what that 'coverage' contains or if there is something that I need to do to activate those maps. Thanks.