[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Search forms redesign (#3123)

[mjourdan]

mjourdan left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#3123)

Thanks for the changes! It's great to see markers are in the input form, the reverse direction button is well placed, and the mode is finally separate from the routing engines.

Did a quick informal user review with a panel of 1 person, and what came up immediately:
- there is no clue of what the dropdown is for, what OSRM, GraphHopper, and Valhallah are
- pressing the go button during a calculation seemed to break the route that was beeing processed (could not reproduce today though)

The issues I see too:
- The close button is a bit too close the reverse directions button and the input form
- the matching locations are not suggested while typing, which likely results in routing beeing calculated for non-expected locations (this might deserve an issue on its own)
 
Ideally we could improve things further by:
- adding a short message to advertise that routing engines are used by the mapper community to ensure the points they add to the map are well connected.
- triggerring the calculation as soon as two locations are selected, a location is changed, the transport mode is changed, or the routing engine is changed
- removing the go button

I could update mockups to reflect those suggestions if that sounds sensible.

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