diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f205976..2a6df14 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+1.2.0
+-----
+
+#### Front End
+- `VectorTile` now holds a lazy `Map` internally, instead of a `Vector`. Use
+the `ix` Lens, giving it a layer name, to hone in on individual Layers
+quickly.
+- Users an optionally use the new `fromProtobuf` function directly from
+`Geography.VectorTile.Protobuf` if they wish to be semantically explicit
+about the backend conversion. Otherwise, they can still use the top-level
+`tile` function.
+
+#### Back End
+- Reworked internals for Protobuf conversion. Most code moved to an
+`Internal` module.
+
 1.1.1
 -----
 - Removed the `StrictData` pragma. Turns out laziness is faster.
diff --git a/Geography/VectorTile/Protobuf/Internal.hs b/Geography/VectorTile/Protobuf/Internal.hs
index 91f532f..4430656 100644
--- a/Geography/VectorTile/Protobuf/Internal.hs
+++ b/Geography/VectorTile/Protobuf/Internal.hs
@@ -89,9 +89,11 @@ class Protobuffable a where
   toProtobuf :: a -> Protobuf a
 
 instance Protobuffable VT.VectorTile where
-  fromProtobuf = fmap (VT.VectorTile . V.fromList) . mapM fromProtobuf . getField . _layers
+  fromProtobuf raw = do
+    ls <- mapM fromProtobuf . getField $ _layers raw
+    pure . VT.VectorTile . M.fromList $ map (\l -> (VT._name l, l)) ls
 
-  toProtobuf vt = RawVectorTile { _layers = putField . V.toList . V.map toProtobuf $ VT._layers vt }
+  toProtobuf vt = RawVectorTile { _layers = putField . map toProtobuf . M.elems $ VT._layers vt }
 
 instance Protobuffable VT.Layer where
   fromProtobuf l = do
diff --git a/Geography/VectorTile/VectorTile.hs b/Geography/VectorTile/VectorTile.hs
index 8939b81..dd84548 100644
--- a/Geography/VectorTile/VectorTile.hs
+++ b/Geography/VectorTile/VectorTile.hs
@@ -45,15 +45,13 @@ import           Geography.VectorTile.Geometry
 
 ---
 
--- | A high-level representation of a Vector Tile. At its simplest, a tile
--- is just a list of `Layer`s.
---
--- There is potential to implement `_layers` as a `M.Map`, with its String-based
--- `name` as a key.
-newtype VectorTile = VectorTile { _layers :: V.Vector Layer } deriving (Eq,Show,Generic)
+-- | A high-level representation of a Vector Tile. Implemented internally
+-- as a `M.Map`, so that access to individual layers can be fast if you
+-- know the layer names ahead of time.
+newtype VectorTile = VectorTile { _layers :: M.Map Text Layer } deriving (Eq,Show,Generic)
 
--- | > Lens' VectorTile (Vector Layer)
-layers :: Functor f => (V.Vector Layer -> f (V.Vector Layer)) -> VectorTile -> f VectorTile
+-- | > Lens' VectorTile (Map Text Layer)
+layers :: Functor f => (M.Map Text Layer -> f (M.Map Text Layer)) -> VectorTile -> f VectorTile
 layers f v = VectorTile <$> f (_layers v)
 {-# INLINE layers #-}
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c3ff683..ad37069 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ You can run the benchmarks with `stack bench`, provided you have [the stack
 tool](http://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/). The following results
 are from a 2016 Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 with an Intel Core i7 processor,
 comparing this library with a [Python library of similar
-functionality](https://github.com/mapzen/mapbox-vector-tile).
+functionality](https://github.com/mapzen/mapbox-vector-tile). All
+benchmarking code is available in the `bench` directory.
 
 *Note: 1 ms = 1000 μs*
 
@@ -83,9 +84,9 @@ functionality](https://github.com/mapzen/mapbox-vector-tile).
 
 | | One Point | One LineString | One Polygon | roads.mvt (40kb, 15 layers)
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| CPython 3.5.2 | 59 μs | 69 μs | 82 μs | 73 ms |
-| PyPy 5.3 | 115 μs | 213 μs | 212 μs | 11.4 ms |
-| Haskell | 3.6 μs | 4.7 μs | 5.7 μs | 16.6 ms
+| CPython 3.5.2 | 63 μs | 70 μs | 84 μs | 76 ms |
+| PyPy 5.3 | 116 μs | 210 μs | 211 μs | 12 ms |
+| Haskell | 3.6 μs | 5 μs | 5.8 μs | 17.1 ms
 
 *The Haskell times are measuring data evaluation to their Normal Form (fully
 evaluated form).*
@@ -94,22 +95,22 @@ evaluated form).*
 
 ##### Encoding
 
-| | One Point | One LineString | One Polygon | roads.mvt (40kb, 15 layers)
+| | One Point | One LineString | One Polygon | roads.mvt
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| CPython 3.5.2 | 212 μs | 268 μs | 667 μs | N/A |
-| Haskell | 3.1 μs | 3.8 μs | 4.5 μs | 10 ms
+| CPython 3.5.2 | 218 μs | 278 μs | 703 μs | N/A |
+| Haskell | 3.2 μs | 4.4 μs | 5 μs | 11.1 ms
 
 *Certain encoding benchmarks for Python were not possible.*
 
-##### Data Access (Fetching all Layer names)
+##### Data Access (Fetching first Polygon)
 
-| | One Point | One LineString | One Polygon | roads.mvt (40kb, 15 layers)
-| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| CPython 3.5.2 | 60 μs | 69 μs | 83 μs | 73 ms |
-| PyPy 5.3 | 162 μs | 124 μs | 103 μs | 7.7 ms |
-| Haskell | 3.1 μs | 3.4 μs | 3.5 μs | 6.5 ms
+| |  One Polygon | roads.mvt (`water` layer)
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| CPython 3.5.2 | 84 μs | 78 ms |
+| PyPy 5.3 | 31 μs | 7.9 ms |
+| Haskell | 3.4 μs | 6.8 ms |
 
-*The operation being benchmarked is `ByteString -> [Text]`, meaning we
+*The operation being benchmarked is `ByteString -> Polygon`, meaning we
 include the decoding time to account for speed gains afforded by laziness.*
 
 ##### Conclusions
diff --git a/bench/Bench.hs b/bench/Bench.hs
index 5707b1a..8a4d4f8 100644
--- a/bench/Bench.hs
+++ b/bench/Bench.hs
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+
 module Main where
 
 import           Control.Monad ((>=>))
 import           Criterion.Main
 import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
+import qualified Data.Map.Lazy as M
 import           Data.Text (Text)
 import           Geography.VectorTile
-import qualified Geography.VectorTile.Protobuf as R
+import           Geography.VectorTile.Geometry (Polygon)
 import           Lens.Micro
 import           Lens.Micro.Platform ()  -- Instances only.
 
@@ -17,10 +20,10 @@ main = do
   ls <- BS.readFile "test/linestring.mvt"
   pl <- BS.readFile "test/polygon.mvt"
   rd <- BS.readFile "test/roads.mvt"
-  let op' = fromRight $ R.decode op >>= R.tile
-      ls' = fromRight $ R.decode ls >>= R.tile
-      pl' = fromRight $ R.decode pl >>= R.tile
-      rd' = fromRight $ R.decode rd >>= R.tile
+  let op' = fromRight $ decode op >>= tile
+      ls' = fromRight $ decode ls >>= tile
+      pl' = fromRight $ decode pl >>= tile
+      rd' = fromRight $ decode rd >>= tile
   defaultMain [ bgroup "Decoding"
                 [ bgroup "onepoint.mvt" $ decodes op
                 , bgroup "linestring.mvt" $ decodes ls
@@ -40,22 +43,30 @@ main = do
                   , bench "One Polygon" $ nf layerNames pl
                   , bench "roads.mvt" $ nf layerNames rd
                   ]
+                , bgroup "First Polygon"
+                  [ bench "One Polygon" $ nf (firstPoly "OnePolygon") op
+                  , bench "roads.mvt - water layer" $ nf (firstPoly "water") rd
+                  ]
                 ]
               ]
 
 decodes :: BS.ByteString -> [Benchmark]
-decodes bs = [ bench "Raw.VectorTile" $ nf R.decode bs
-             , bench "VectorTile" $ nf (R.decode >=> R.tile) bs
+decodes bs = [ bench "Raw.VectorTile" $ nf decode bs
+             , bench "VectorTile" $ nf (decode >=> tile) bs
              ]
 
 encodes :: VectorTile -> [Benchmark]
-encodes vt = [ bench "Raw.VectorTile" $ nf R.untile vt
-             , bench "ByteString" $ nf (R.encode . R.untile) vt
+encodes vt = [ bench "Raw.VectorTile" $ nf untile vt
+             , bench "ByteString" $ nf (encode . untile) vt
              ]
 
 layerNames :: BS.ByteString -> [Text]
-layerNames mvt = t ^.. layers . each . name
-  where t = fromRight $ R.decode mvt >>= R.tile
+layerNames mvt = M.keys $ _layers t
+  where t = fromRight $ decode mvt >>= tile
+
+firstPoly :: Text -> BS.ByteString -> Maybe Polygon
+firstPoly ln mvt = r ^? _Right . layers . ix ln . polygons . _head . geometries . _head
+  where r = decode mvt >>= tile
 
 fromRight :: Either a b -> b
 fromRight (Right b) = b
diff --git a/bench/pybench.py b/bench/pybench.py
index 812bf2b..fe0a861 100644
--- a/bench/pybench.py
+++ b/bench/pybench.py
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ def layerNames(data):
     decoded = mapbox_vector_tile.decode(data, y_coord_down=True)
     return list(decoded.keys())
 
+def firstPoly(data, layerName):
+    decoded = mapbox_vector_tile.decode(data, y_coord_down=True)
+    return decoded[layerName]['features'][0]['geometry'][0]
+
 # Benchmark the decoding process.
 def benchDecode(file):
     print('Benchmarking {}'.format(file))
@@ -52,6 +56,20 @@ def benchFetch(file):
 
     print('Average: {} ms'.format(1000 * the_time / iters))
 
+def benchPoly(file, layerName):
+    print('Benchmarking {} - {}'.format(file, layerName))
+
+    # Exclude the IO from the benchmark timing.
+    with open(file, 'rb') as f:
+        data = f.read()
+
+    iters = 100
+    wrapped = wrapper(firstPoly, data, layerName)
+    the_time = timeit.timeit(wrapped, number=iters)
+
+    print('Average: {} ms'.format(1000 * the_time / iters))
+
+
 print('*** DECODING ***')
 
 benchDecode('test/onepoint.mvt')
@@ -101,5 +119,7 @@ def benchFetch(file):
 benchFetch('test/linestring.mvt')
 benchFetch('test/polygon.mvt')
 benchFetch('test/roads.mvt')
+benchPoly('test/polygon.mvt', 'OnePolygon')
+benchPoly('test/roads.mvt', 'water')
 
 print("\nDone")
diff --git a/demo/Demo.hs b/demo/Demo.hs
index 68ecfc7..4bed394 100644
--- a/demo/Demo.hs
+++ b/demo/Demo.hs
@@ -10,17 +10,27 @@ import qualified Data.Vector as V
 
 ---
 
+get :: FilePath -> IO (Either Text VectorTile)
+get fp = do
+  mvt <- BS.readFile fp
+  pure $ decode mvt >>= tile
+
 -- | Read in raw protobuf data and decode it into a high-level type.
 roads :: IO (Either Text VectorTile)
-roads = do
-  mvt <- BS.readFile "test/roads.mvt"
-  pure $ decode mvt >>= tile
+roads = get "test/roads.mvt"
+
+
+onePolygon :: IO (Either Text VectorTile)
+onePolygon = get "test/polygon.mvt"
 
 layerNames :: Traversal' VectorTile Text
 layerNames = layers . traverse . name
 
 -- (\r -> sum $ r ^.. _Right . layers . traverse . polygons . traverse . geometries . to V.length) <$> roads
 
+-- Find the first Polygon from the `water` layer.
+-- (\r -> r ^? _Right . layers . ix "water" . polygons . _head . geometries . _head) <$> roads
+
 -- POINTS: 76
 -- LINESTRINGS: 576
 -- POLYGONS: 555
diff --git a/vectortiles.cabal b/vectortiles.cabal
index 39120de..fa3cffc 100644
--- a/vectortiles.cabal
+++ b/vectortiles.cabal
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ benchmark vectortiles-bench
                      , microlens >= 0.4 && < 0.5
                      , microlens-platform >= 0.3 && < 0.4
                      , text
+                     , containers
 
   hs-source-dirs:      bench
   main-is:             Bench.hs