Resize Google Maps marker icon image

Question

When I load an image into the icon property of a marker it displays with its original size, which is a lot bigger than it should be.

I want to resize to the standard

Answer 1

So I just had this same issue, but a little different. I already had the icon as an object as Philippe Boissonneault suggests, but I was using an SVG image.

What solved it for me was:
Switch from an SVG image to a PNG and following Catherine Nyo on having an image that is double the size of what you will use.