An experimental 3D map visualisation:

– I made in Blender with

– London LiDAR data Composite DSM 50cm (3D point cloud)

– Rendered in Cycles render engine.

Second edition with added details. Open Data and Open source software! 🙂

by Julian_H0ffmann

40 comments

  1. That’s pretty a impressive map and really highlights the length of the queue.

  2. Can you put a marker for where Philip Schofied started from, please…?

    Should be fairly close to the Cathedral.

  4. that’s insane, kudos to you for the incredible work

  5. Cant believe I walked past on the first night and it was only back up to the Tate/Southbank and i “couldnt be arsed to queue” ….

  6. So what you are saying is, even in death, she was so powerful, she cause a rift of power to form over half of London?

  8. Us Brits really love a queue (line for our American chums) don’t we?

  9. I went and joined the back end of the queue at around 10pm. We made it there it was 8am or so! A very long night followed by a few days of back and leg pain. Not then or since I’ve ever regretted doing it. Quite the opposite.

  11. What the heck? I never looked to see where the queues actually started and finished.. from Big Ben to Tower Bridge and beyond?! Actually mental that

  14. This was the most unhinged thing I’ve ever seen as a British person

  15. Each to their own. To pay for the security for this and the life and death of a total stranger should be a choice and not a tax though

  16. We used to laugh at the Russians for doing this with Lenin’s tomb in Moscow.

  18. Genuinely one of the most special memories I have, the people I met in the queue and the general atmosphere was unlike anything I’ve done before or since. Took me 16 hours in total but I have no regrets at all.

    People can come and leave their sad little edge lord comments but it was a really beautiful display of multicultural, multi generational and multifaceted Britain and I’ll cherish that memory, maybe even more than getting a chance to say to goodbye to my Sovereign.

  19. I was working in Westminster at the time, and I thought about it, but I had pub that evening near Blackfriars, and the queue had nearly reached there already.

  21. I just wanna say I seriously LOOOVE your maps! I’d 100% buy one in a frame, this one is especially so pretty, big fan of the glow.

  22. Still bemuses me to this day how the Willoughby/Schofield thing became so big.

  23. Yes, we took the kid to see the queue. Not the queen. The queue.

    No way we going to take a one year old queuing it. But felt like at least we should let her see the queue. It probably will never happen again like this.

  26. What weird times, it really was insane 2020-2024 was a weird weird time

  27. At first I thought it was Elizabeth Line, then I realised it is Elizabeth line!

  28. I wish I’d gone, but the idea of being surrounded by strangers for that long was nightmarish. The social pressure to chat would have been agonising.

    My friend who went said it was worth it.

  29. Are those 2 dots Holly and Phil making their way to the front?

  31. How did people figure out where they had to join the queue? Did they keep following the queue until they got to the end of it and then doubled back?

  32. Waiting for the guy from the other post to make the penised version.

  33. I kinda wish I did it, I think I definitely will for Charles (and, Will god willing).

  34. Legend has it that if she were to go more than 30 seconds without being observed to still be dead by a new pair of eyes for the first week past her death she would rise from the grave and consume the entire population of London in an infernal ritual to rise anew from the flames of the burning citizens in her new god form of Kali-Mecha-Elizabeth-Ifrit-Safer-Sephiroth.

  36. Fun (ish) fact, my workplace (a school) had to cancel a fire drill because one of the routes to the meeting point was being blocked by the queue

  37. This is great. But I really want to know what’s going on with the strange artifacts in the Thames: in some areas one can make out individual boats, but in others there are just weird conical blobs along the banks of the river (and not corresponding especially well with where there are beaches at low tide, either). And then there’s the section between Westminster and Lambeth bridges, which appears to in the process of being filled in, perhaps in preparation for construction of [the proposed Thames (Pimlico) Airport](https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/unbuilt-london-the-thames-airport-15637/).

  38. It was a very long day! We got up at like 4am, got the very first tube into the city. Everything was running really smoothly, and then we hit the actual queue in the streets. We just missed Princ William and Harry as they did their watch. Very respectful turn out, and one hell of a memory, was an honor and a privilege to bid her majesty farewell

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