{{short description|Hungarian geographical journal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Use British English|date=August 2023}} '''Cartactual''' was a cartographic reference journal, published by Hungarian publisher Cartographia,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Győri |first1=Róbert |title=Communist Geography Instead of Nationalist Geography: The New Cadres and the Case of Sándor Radó |journal=Hungarian Cultural Studies |date=22 January 2016 |volume=8 |pages=124–146 |doi=10.5195/ahea.2015.222|doi-access=free |hdl=10831/66585 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> starting in September 1965 under the editorship of Alexander Radó.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Monmonier |first1=Mark |title=The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century |date=18 May 2015 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-15212-7 |page=1238 |language=en|volume=6}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Louis |title=Alexander Rado |journal=Studies in Intelligence |date=1968 |volume=12 |issue=3 |url=https://www.cia.gov/static/13af18a21a769034493f7013fa790e47/Alexander-Rado.pdf |page=12 |archive-date=19 January 2024 |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119111739/https://www.cia.gov/static/13af18a21a769034493f7013fa790e47/Alexander-Rado.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> It produced a collection of maps that illustrated changes to geographic features such as roads, railways, ferry routes, ports, and international and sub-national boundaries in various countries of the world, that were cited in its sister-journal Geodézia és Kartográfia (Geodesy and Cartography).<ref name="Map">{{cite journal |last1=Zentai |first1=László |last2=Buga |first2=László |last3=Gercsák |first3=Gábor |title=Hungarian Military Mapping Abroad 1919–1990 |journal=The Cartographic Journal |date=3 April 2018 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=159–169 |doi=10.1080/00087041.2018.1433768|doi-access=free |hdl=10831/46404 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
==Production== Cartactual was created wholly from open source cartography and was an amalgamation of many newspapers and technical journals. Its production represented a significant technical task that covered search, selection, organisation, illustration and publication of known data by Cartographia cartographers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Louis |title=Alexander Rado |journal=Studies in Intelligence |date=1968 |volume=12 |issue=3 |url=https://www.cia.gov/static/13af18a21a769034493f7013fa790e47/Alexander-Rado.pdf |page=13 |archive-date=19 January 2024 |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119111739/https://www.cia.gov/static/13af18a21a769034493f7013fa790e47/Alexander-Rado.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Publication== It was initially published quarterly before becoming bi-monthly in 1981. The journals map legends were written in English, German, French, and Hungarian language editions to suit an international audience of some 600 subscribers that included map publishers, libraries and universities and consisted of 12-14 A3 sized maps <ref name="Geopress">{{cite web |last1=GERCS-K |first1=G. |last2=HAB-NI |first2=I. |last3=Toth |first3=M. |title=A Cartactual és a Cartinform |url=http://geoprodig.cnrs.fr/items/show/6329 |website=GéoProdig |publisher=Portail d'information géographique, consulté |language=fr, en}}</ref> per edition.<ref name="Map"/> Its success made it an international standard, until the mid-1980s when the publishing environment changed due to the economic crisis's in socialist countries that increased costs for production and reduced subscriber numbers. It started to lengthen the time between its publication dates, and continued to be produced until 1993 when it finally ceased operations.<ref name="Map"/> In total, 158 issues were produced.<ref name="Geopress"/>
In 1971, Cartactual was extended together with an associated textual journal "Cartinform" that included cartobibliographic information, short reviews of current geographical and cartographic literature and map publications.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Török |first1=Zsolt G. |editor1-last=Harley |editor1-first=J. B. |editor2-last=Woodward |editor2-first=David |editor3-last=Edney |editor3-first=Matthew H. |editor4-last=Pedley |editor4-first=Mary Sponberg |editor5-last=Monmonier |editor5-first=Mark S. |title=The history of cartography |date=1987 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |volume=6|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V6/HOC_VOLUME6_R.pdf|chapter=Radó, Sándor (Alexander Rado)}}</ref> It consisted of some 20-24 pages.<ref name="Map"/>
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==External links== * [http://lazarus.elte.hu/gb/hunkarta/press.htm Mass media maps in Hungary National report (1997)]
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