I hear ya, when someone else UV maps things, and gives you a template that's not labeled, it can be anyone's guess what things are.

One remedy top that is to have an OBJ and open it inside a UV map capable modelling ap (hexagon in my case) and explore. Highlight different parts of the object, and see where on the UV map they lay.

As far as painting textures, painting on a flat UV map template for anything but simple objects is a pain. This is one of the reasons why applications which allow you to paint directly on an object (and in a background create UV based flat image for you) are getting more and more popular. It's easier and often faster too.

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