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Comment by houseatrielah | Hacker News Reader

They could already do this with high-rez satellite photos if they wanted. The drone just makes it unusually irritating.

Or fly a Cessna - far noisier than any drone - over the area with a fancy camera, or ...

Would it make all that much difference if they'd sent out an artist on horseback, to depict his property with quill and ink on parchment?

How loud is this quill when it scratches against the parchment? Does the horse whinny?

the horse is a coconut afixed to a bicycle

I get that the horse allows the artist to see over the top of the fence into the yard without a ladder, but could we rely on the horse staying still during the drawing process?

Figure that they'd use horses with cooler temperaments. And a decent rider can control a horse pretty well with his legs. So - still enough.

Yep, this is a thing:

https://www.verisk.com/insurance/products/personal-aerial-im...

I seem to remember reading on Twitter that 80% of the population of the US is photographed every 3 months or so by services like this.

Also

https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/aerial-imaging-in-insur...

Verisk looks to be using "aerial" photography, not satellite.

Just wait until it’s a fully automated system. This is still someone doing investigations at the moment. In the not too distant future, surveillance will determine rates and not just policy eligibility.

What I want to know is how a man with a drone is more cost-effective. In 2023, high resolution satellite imagery is basically a SaaS product.

They didn't use a drone.

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