Love it, great detail
Overall I love the end result, it looks great with most of my favorite map details crisp and visible. Set up was quite easy, although you will want a second set of hands to start and make sure the stencil is straight and taught, but after that it's just peel and stick. I was worried about Asia, since it's so big and heavy, so I put an extra strip of mounting tape that I had on it and split another strip between Greenland and South America. I did run out of the included sticky tape with all the islands, and wouldn't of had enough to put up the ocean names and map flair. That's was okay for me, since I wasn't planning on putting them on, but if you are you may want to get some extra mounting tape.<br /><br />The finished results is why I'm giving it 5 stars, I really like the states and provinces for the US, Canada and Australia. I would have liked having the UK broken down as well, but it was not. Some states/provinces were two small to label like CT, DE, HI, NJ, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, and PEI and Tasmania). But it is odd where they did and didn't label some things... like tiny Taiwan is labeled, but New Zealand, Cuba, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines were not. Some of those would be hard to fit, but New Zealand being blank bothers me the most I think. For compromises of resolution they didn't do too much merging, they did with Hawaii, but I'm glad they did since individual islands would have been too small to include at this scale. They also did it with the Philippines, again that was a reasonable compromise. The only compromise I didn't like was that they merged the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido with the Asian continent, and it's not as recognizable. Finally they stencil could be better, especially if they cut it into a stronger material and rolled it instead of folding it, but it did it's job and it's a disposable tool so it's okay.<br /><br />If you like maps or travel this will be a fantastic backdrop/conversation piece/art work for you wall.
Rating: 5 stars